The Tale of Two Ari’s -Ari Lennox Gets Slut Shamed — No One Blames Ariana Grande for Loving 34+35

Kinda old news with an ongoing view

GFC: Grown Folk Conversations
4 min readJan 25, 2022
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Let me start this story by saying I LOVE both Ari’s — Ari Lennox’s song, Pressure is my latest fav. And how can you not give props to Ariana Grande’s pitch-perfect pipes coming from her tiny body and iconic ponytail? I’m old enough to be her Mom and I still have her early songs on my workout playlist.

So this story isn’t about them — per say — it’s about how people treat and handle sex-positive Black and white women differently.

I won’t lie — I didn’t know what 34+35 meant until sweet Ari sang the last line. I did a quick church lady pearl grab and then proceeded to play her remix with Doja Cat and Megan. Yet, I’ve never heard of anyone interviewing Ariana Grande and asking her about her 69 skills…

To be fair, and put Ari Lennox’s scandal in context, the interviewer, MacG claims this interview is a year old, heavily edited and was set up by Ari’s record label.

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